Like Jebus said, it's all about cognitive dissonance. So much so that we'll usually call somebody like that a hypocrite, because it's basically inconceivable that a human could choose not to act in accordance with his or her values. Not quite correct (the charge of hypocrisy), since somebody might j...

I don't think that this is likely to be the case. Homosexuals, bisexuals and trans people have often been lumped together, hence the acronym "LGBT", and yet the position of homosexuals and bisexuals has advanced much more than the position of trans people despite this. The implication that they wou...

I don't really see the opinion of academics as important when it comes to something like grammar. Grammar is a social construction created by humans, and because of that, it should really be determined by how the general public use it. Academics *do* take that into account, but there are other fact...

This is not true. The rules of language are entirely determined by what most people will use. Not exactly, there are degrees of formality. Using "they" particularly in writing, is still frowned upon in academics and by editors, as well as well-read readers. See style guides, and the apparent consen...

I think I can address all or almost all of your points here just by addressing two of them... You can't make predictions about something you already have knowledge of... Therefore, Galileo was wrong to make predictions about how things move, just because he had a lot of experience with that? The hu...

Welcome! I identify as either an Atheist or Pantheist, but either way I get a lot of flake and risk getting arrested if it reaches the ears of our religious authorities. That's scary. Is it illegal to not believe there? Or an apostasy thing? I am not so sure I will excel in culinary arts but I'm rea...

Have you heard of Street Epistemology? One of the things that practice reveals is that for some people even facts can seem confrontational and be counter productive, and hypothetical questions can be better. E.g. if X was proved, then would you change your mind? Because often it's not the fact itsel...

Even then, the theory that says the sky is like that wouldn't really be a coherent theory (the way Bradley defines coherence), it would at best be merely a consistent theory. Consistency is adequate. Why are you bringing up Coherentism? It's not something I'd generally recommend... Simply, the Havl...